The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-06-02
THE EDITOR'Ss DESK.
COMMENTS On TOPICS THAT ARE
ESTIN(s THE PEOPLE.

THE EDITORS DESK.
CoNMENrs ON TOPIcs THAT ARE
INTERESTING: THE PEOPLE.
The Chronicle Expresses It's Opinion on
Passing Pablic Events and Questions
of Interest Now Before the People.
In this day of commencement orations
by graduates the following advice from
.RuSkin is applicable:
After they've learned all they want the
students should learn whOlesomely to hold
Sheir tongues, except on extreme occasion,
IN all languages Whatsoever
Wide Awake for June contains the com
,mencement of continued story from the
pen of Chas Egbert Craddock, keedon
Bluffs Besides this, it is full of other in
teresting stories, sketches, poetry, illus
snagazine for the young people, and justly
deserves IS name-Wide Awake.
The Winston Republican is in favor of
nominating Judge Settle for Vice Presi-
dent IN 1888 on the Republican National
ticket. It says his nomination would
break the solid South, for not only North
Carolina bat Virginia, Florida and West
Virginia would swell the Republican col
umns The Florida Herald says it does
not desire to see Judge Settle sacrificed
and il therefore opposes his nomination.
The time is at hand when everyone will
be thinking OF yachts and yachting and
not few will be putting money at hazard
on the outcome of ocean races. 1t may be
safely said, therefore, that ah article On
e.The Form and Speed of Yachts by
Prof Z. H. Thurston, announced to APP
pear in the Forum for June, Efil be widely
read. Prof. Thnrston is not anlyia' most
accomplished STUDENT of mechanical sci
ence. but is also sailor He will con
slider all the elements Of the yacht pro-
j.ems theoretical and practical.
Rev ~. Strickler, of Alabama. was
elected moderator of the Presbyterian
General Assembly In session last week at
ST Louis. Fraternai greetings were re
ceiyed from the Northern Presbyterian
General Assembly, in session at Omaha,
Neb, with an overture for organic union.
We are glad TO note that there is a ten
dency OF the part Of all the churches
North and South to come together again.
The differences which separated the North
ern and Southern churches are now hap
r,ily settled forever. and there is not need
that the organizations continue separate
and apart.
we ilelieve the Gazette was the first pa
per III the State to advocate q change in
Ihe road laws. This was several years
since. Our exchanges generally advocate
the Necessity, but it seems To US some of
chem go most 500 far. The Wilson Advance
and Wilmington Star favor the working of
the roads by taEation. and say this tax
should be wheel tax. If our roads were
in such condition that 5000 pounds could
BE carried over them at a load, e.td Of
500 pounds, as is now often the case, we
could afford to pay our laborers better
wages. in other words, anything as a
cle, which benfits the employer, benefits
the employee. Therefore, all of our citi-
zens should contribute their quota towards
keeping the roads in order. Let each one
do manual labor as now, or pay capita
ton tax No classes should be excluded
from road duty. All should bear the bur
den Warrenton Gazette.
The action CT the County Commissioners
of Granville ip ordering that the hanging
Of the negro Taborn be public, Is severely
criticised by the Torch-Light and many of
the citizens of Oxford. The CHRONICLE
agrees with the Torch-Light that public ex-
eeutions are demoralizing and ought not to
oe permitted. A correspondent of the
Iorcn-Light in a well considered article
against the public execution, relates the
following.
Years ago there was to be public exc
cution at Oxford. A petition for holiday
in order to witness the execution was
handed to Mr.. Horner Che will pardon me
for telling tales as have been SO long out
of school) He read the petition, folded,
and returned it without looking at the
Names saving. that he did not want to
know who were the boys that desired to
see such a spectacle as a public execution
afforded" Many times since L nave telt
that he deserved the gratitude of students
and parents for the lesson then taught.
Does not the same idea hold good to-day?
oxford is a town Of schools, and can you
believe that the parents of the scholars
would wish that their children should wit
ness such things2 Let the Commissioners,
while there is yet time, revoke their order
for a public execution, that;it may net be
said Of us that in North Carolina the peo-
pie make holiday that they may witness
the dying struggles Of a criminal.
THE DIVIDING LINE.
Gen. CatIin, one of the leading and